Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
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May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
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As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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I'd love to play Moon Knight. I don't know if anybody's doing a Moon Knight animated series any time soon.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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Blinking is some way of tabulating - a kind of carriage return, click, or save to disk - that helps the process of 'Okay, now change the subject.' Every time you move your eyes, there's an interruption in the visual field - you go momentarily blind when your eyeballs are moving.
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At any rate, we can see that they are given into our care, that we cannot just do whatever we want with them. Animals, too, are God's creatures.
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Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.
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Are we allowed to sing? I imagine that at times, it might improve the tone of the debate.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
